"Then you gotta check this out," Michael says. And he directs me to YouTube. Course.

There, he points me to some 12-year-old footage of the late, great band Jesus Lizard playing the long-defunct Orbit Room. Actually, it's more than that: Frontman David Yow takes a beer bottle smack to the head. And keeps on going, after a little while. Michael was at the show; matter of fact, he was still pop music critic at The Dallas Morning News at the time. He was pals with the band's tour manager and recalls telling her after the show, "That must happen all the time." She said, "Nobody's ever done that before. They were very surprised."